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diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h index 484fb6b7ec..4f53e470e4 100644 --- a/bfd/coffcode.h +++ b/bfd/coffcode.h @@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ SUBSUBSECTION points to a function that allows the value of the flag to be altered at runtime, on formats that support long section names at all; on other formats it points to a stub that returns an error indication. + + With input BFDs, the flag is set according to whether any long section + names are detected while reading the section headers. For a completely + new BFD, the flag is set to the default for the target format. This + information can be used by a client of the BFD library when deciding + what output format to generate, and means that a BFD that is opened + for read and subsequently converted to a writeable BFD and modified + in-place will retain whatever format it had on input. If @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES} is simply defined (blank), or is defined to the value "1", then long section names are enabled by |